Opinion

Inviting as a summer off from teaching looks, it can be an ideal time to redesign one's courses, writes Benjamin Rifkin, who lays out his strategy for doing so.

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In the debut of a new humor column, Mark J. Drozdowski describes his difficulties training for the circus life.

By Mark J. Drozdowski

How dependent on foreign (non-EU) student fees is the UK (2010-2011)? Very much so, though at variable levels.

By Kris Olds

What’s happening at U.Va. is hardly an isolated phenomenon, though this example is more public than most. In fact, the focus of my dissertation research is this process of “strategic change” at universities, how it’s imagined and implemented, and how it’s perceived and experienced by organizational participants.

By Melonie Fullick

My response to Joshua Kim's story yesterday about the lack of education-related news at Google IO.

By Audrey Watters

I'll probably never have it all; does that make me a failure?

By Lee Bessette

I just wrote a memo to a group of budget people explaining (again) why it takes library staff with good technical skills, time, and lots of patience to make sure that when you click on a button in a library database to find an article, you actually find the article. Since it’s all online, now, it’s much less work, right? Well ... no. And why that's so is one example of the issues John Palfrey and Urs Gasser address in their new book, Interop: The Promise and Perils of Highly Interconnected Systems.

By Barbara Fister

The bloggers’ union called and threatened to revoke my card if I didn’t at least try to write something about UVA. If nothing else, I hope the whole episode will help some folks understand the crosscurrents that academic administrators have to navigate.

By Dean Dad